As the biggest porn site on the internet, Pornhub already dominates the landscape when it comes to what people get off to. Now the company is also making a push to control how people get off, with a new line of interactive sex toys that sync with Pornhub videos.

On a recent trip to Berlin, Alex Lomas’ acquaintance posed him a challenge: Can you find a Bluetooth-enabled butt plug in the wild, and can you turn it on without its owner’s help? Lomas, a penetration tester with the British cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners, pulled out his phone, consulted the detection app…

Smart sex toys have a single core idea: take one of the most personal and private parts of a someone’s life and hook it up to a network designed for blasting information out for all the world to see. Back in August, it came to light that one wired-up Canadian dildo maker had violated its user’s privacy and now it has…

At the Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots (a real thing) Swiss researcher Oliver Bendel cautioned an audience of prospective robot-fuckers that “If the machine over-exerts the human, it reduces the possibility of human sex.”

When it comes to gadgets, few bonds are more sacred than the one shared by a sex toy and its user. Sadly, one Illinois woman claims her smartphone-connected vibrator betrayed that love, sending (extremely) personal data to Canadian dildo maker Standard Innovation.

The dream of teledildonics, or having sex over the internet using remote-controlled sex toys, has been around since the 1990s. Every once in a while, new companies try to perfect the technology, so that you can enhance your sexting with a little something extra. But now the dream is about to die — thanks to patent…

Sex toys are great, but they still can't compare to skin-on-skin contact. That may be about to change—kind of—thanks to a new generation of internet-enabled playthings that fall under the awesomely-named umbrella of teledildonics. These toys let long-distance partners "feel" each other in real-time via data-enabled…

It's our biggest fear about sexual technology, like teledidonics — that instead of bringing us closer together, it'll come between you and your partner, and you'll start to prefer the artificial to the natural. In response to io9's story about teledildonics a while back, literary magazine Tin House posted a cautionary…

Sex in long-distance relationships often relies on prowess with one's own hand and a good imagination, but soon lovers separated by miles and oceans could get a little technological help. LovePalz is yet another "world's first Internet-enabled sex toy," aiming to let partners please each other even when they're apart.

They say long distance relationships don't work, and a lack of physical intimacy is usually to blame. It's kind of abstract, but the Mutsugoto allows lovers to draw light on each other's bodies or beds.

Dash over at Fleshbot's got a very interesting look at Ars Elektronika in SF, where inventors and teledildonics fanatics gather together to show off the weird, gadgety and sexy things they made in their sex dungeons. One invention is a vibrator that's connected to the U.S. Geological Survey which only activates during…

Remember when it was cool to joke about how the vibrating Wii remote looked, felt and behaved pretty much like a vibrator? No? Well, too bad, because it turns out that the two were more similar than the light-hearted humor suggested. In fact, both tools of pleasure employ technology built from a patent from the same…

Zoltan is a 33-year-old guy from Georgia. Average height, average looks, and not a rich man. He works in an arcade, where he fixes video games for a living, and still lives with his elderly parents. No wonder he was nervous about asking his slim redheaded girlfriend Alice to marry him. To make things more tense, she…

In the mad scramble to invent teledildonics devices, an inventor has created a forerunner of the category with the Kiss Phone. Although we're wondering who would want to be seen in public with this odd-looking phone with its downturned mouth that reminds us of all manner of masturbatory mechanisms, its inventor…

Sony's getting desperate to goose the street cred of its slow-selling PS3, digging deep into its idea basket to catch up to the popularity of the Nintendo Wii. Apparently the company's plan of attack is to develop a VR/3-D controller, illustrated in this patent application for a "handheld computer interactive device"…

You're probably familiar with teledildonics, which for a long time have seemed to be far off in the future somewhere, but now we bring you the world premiere of the virtual vagina. Crudely named Virtual Hole ($200), this USB device has nine motors that are said to be able to simulate a real mouth, hands and "sensation…

If you're looking for a sexy USB gadget, you can forget that USB Pole Dancer and grab the MagMag-HOLE instead. By combining the MagMag-Hole with the Virtual-STICK, you can have teledildonic USB pleasure no matter where the other party is—be it across the country, across the planet, or even across the Dust Plains of …

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then the Hug Shirt adds a sensual experience to the equation, working with Bluetooth and special HugMe Java software to let you push buttons on your cellphone to hug your significant other miles away. As long as both of you are wearing this shirt that has sensors and actuators…